Isengard by Yik

Format: Commander

Commander: Saruman of Many Colors

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control list commanded by Saruman of Many Colors. It focuses on casting two spells each turn to trigger powerful value engines, mill opponents, and cast exiled spells from opposing graveyards for free. Early turns prioritize fixing colors, establishing ramp like Arcane Signet and Talisman of Progress, and deploying steady card advantage engines such as Archmage Emeritus or The One Ring. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck disrupts opponents with flexible interaction while constructing imposing board states via Lord of the Nazgûl's Wraith tokens or Consuming Aberration. Game closure occurs around Turn 8 through either an alternate win condition in Approach of the Second Sun, combat damage from oversized menace creatures, or a compact infinite mill-drain combo using Duskmantle Guildmage and The Master of Lake-town.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Courageous Resolve
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pelargir Survivor
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Saruman of Many Colors
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shadow of the Enemy
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerous Squall
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar